(24 Sep 2024)
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Sidon, Lebanon – 24 September 2024
1. Various of cars stuck in traffic on the road to Sidon
2. Two trucks on the highway, one carrying cows and one carrying personal belongings
3. Various of people standing outside of Sidon Municipality
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mustafa Hijazi, head of the Sidon Crisis Management Unit:
"No doubt that the circumstances we are facing today are extraordinary with the aggression we are witnessing. Today, in Sidon we see thousands of displaced people on the roads, sleeping in the squares. The municipality mobilized their operation room since yesterday’s morning. We opened around 14 shelters and we have 3,000 displaced people in them. We are trying to find shelters for a similar number. We are lacking basic supplies. For example, we have 700 mattress so far."
5. Various of people meeting in Sidon Municipality
6. Board on wall with names of schools and contact persons in each one
7. Person on computer
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mustafa Hijazi, head of the Sidon Crisis Management Unit:
"We are communicating with all donating parties whether local or international to supply basic needs for the people. We are lacking food and hygiene kits. The schools have big issues starting with bathrooms, to trying to find fuel for electricity..etc. We are truly witnessing a struggle in the operation room but we are trying as much as we can."
9. Various of people helping displaced person Hussein Awaly to walk
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hussein Awaly, displaced person:
"We were surrounded by strikes and we went into hiding but there were strikes all around us."
11. Traveling shot between cars of displaced people stuck in traffic
12. People walking on foot carrying their belongings
13. Two woman holding three children walking on foot on the side of the road
14. A family by the side of the road
15. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sader al Deen Zalghout, injured and displaced person:
"We were living in Burj al-Shamali. I was working, and was on my motorcycle when they hit. I was injured by the strikes. I was mostly injured in my head and was taken to the hospital."
16. Various of displaced people
STORYLINE:
Thousands of families from southern Lebanon packed their cars and minivans with suitcases, mattresses, blankets and carpets and jammed the highway heading north toward Beirut on Monday to flee the deadliest Israeli bombardment since 2006.
Some 100,000 people living near the border had already been displaced since October, when the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and Israeli forces began exchanging near-daily fire against the backdrop of the war in Gaza.
As the fighting intensifies, the number of evacuees is expected to rise.
In the coastal city of Sidon, people seeking shelter streamed into schools that had no mattresses to sleep on yet.
Many waited on sidewalks outside.
Mustafa Hijazi, the head of the Sidon Crisis Management Unit, said 14 schools were turned into shelters for about 3,000 displaced people.
But he warned they were trying to find shelters for thousands of others.
Hussein Awaly arrived with people trying to help him get out of the car. He was stuck for hours in the traffic following heavy airstrikes on his Batoulay town.
“We were surrounded by airstrikes,” he said, sitting outside the shelter center he arrived at.
Some people waited for hours in gridlocked traffic to get to what they hoped would be safety.
That attack was widely blamed on Israel, which has not confirmed nor denied responsibility.
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